THE Queen met two hosts of chat show Loose Women at a royal charity reception yesterday.
ITV stars Janet Street-Porter and Denise Welch were among 100 guests gathered at London’s Clarence House.
Camilla, 77, hosted the event to mark the 21st anniversary of SafeLives, which aims to end domestic violence.
Diana Parkes, whose daughter Joanna Simpson was killed by her estranged husband, told the Queen the scale of domestic abuse was “frightening”;.
Camilla replied: “Terrifying. And social media.”;
She also met the parents of Holly Newton, a 15-year-old who was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend.
Holly’s mum Micala Trussler is campaigning for the age at which a person can be classed as a domestic abuse victim to be lowered below 16.
She said of Camilla: “She was really passionate about our campaign.”;
In her first engagements since the King was taken to hospital she had earlier inspected a giant “Green Man Humpty Dumpty Egg”; outside Buckingham Palace.
Marvelling at the 2ft high sculpture outside Buckingham Palace she said: “This is very exciting, a real Humpty Dumpty.”
The artwork is one of 123 that make up “The Big Egg Hunt”; campaign by Elephant Family, the conservation charity founded by Her Majesty’s late brother Mark Shand.
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